Re: Introduce XID age and inactive timeout based replication slot invalidation

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 11:30:00AM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > 6) Vacuum command can't be run on the standby in recovery. So, to help
> > invalidate replication slots on the standby, I have for now let the
> > checkpointer also do the XID age based invalidation. I know
> > invalidating both in checkpointer and vacuum may not be a great idea,
> > but I'm open to thoughts.
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> Hm.  I hadn't considered this angle.

Another idea would be to let the startup process do slot invalidation
when replaying a RUNNING_XACTS record. Since a RUNNING_XACTS record
has the latest XID on the primary, I think the startup process can
compare it to the slot-xmin, and invalidate slots which are older than
the age limit.

Regards,

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